(January 9, 2003) We don’t hear much about the Canada Account . . .Why? Because the mandate of the Canada Account is to take up loans, or loan guarantees, that fail to meet Export Development Canada’s own risk tolerance test.
Laos, Cambodia agree power development in border provinces
(January 7, 2003) Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia have agreed to fully tap hydroelectric potential in their seven border provinces at a recent seminar in Hanoi.
Elec Agency To Sign Nam Theun 2 Power Deal
(January 6, 2003) The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand will sign a power purchase agreement with Nam Theun 2 Power Co., the developer of a Laos hydroelectric power project in March, the Krungthep Turakij newspaper reports.
Winning the Peace: Managing a Successful Transition in Iraq
(January 1, 2003) This report recommends to focus on creating viable power-sharing arrangements, protecting the Iraqi economy and oil interests, and maintaining regional stability. Generous debt and reparations relief arrangements are considered as necessary.
Government to launch new debt relief plan
(January 1, 2003) The Norwegian government is launching its new Plan of Action for Debt Relief for Development, which is a follow-up to the Norwegian Debt Relief Strategy of 1998.
A Wiser Peace: An Action Strategy For A Post-Conflict Iraq
(January 1, 2003) To call for a debt restructuring conference and push the United Nations Security Council to begin a review of past war-related claims against Iraq is one of ten key actions recommended by this paper.
Draft UN Convention against Corruption
(December 23, 2002) Proposal for concerted lobbying actions by interested National Chapters and TI-S to ensure an effective and comprehensive international legal instrument against corruption.
PRESS RELEASE Thousands of Thai villagers protest Canadian potash mine
(December 23, 2002) Thai villagers held a traditional rice-harvest ceremony yesterday as part of their protest against a potash mine proposed by Canadian mining company Asia Pacific Resources Ltd.
CHILE: Endesa wins victory for dam, Indian ends protest
(December 23, 2002) A prominent Indian activist has reportedly cut a $250,000 deal with a Chilean power company to sign over her land effectively giving the green light for a huge hydro-electric project that will flood ancient tribal lands in southern Chile.
All Parties Should Have a Voice
(December 22, 2002) Unless China wants to appear heavy-handed, it should reconsider its go-it-alone approach in Mekong hydropower development plans.
Leading scientists warn about impacts of Three Gorges dam
Three prominent scientists who took part in the environmental impact assessment conducted by Chinese researchers 15 years ago for the Three Gorges project still stand by the conclusion of that study, which raised serious concerns about building the dam, a Chinese publication reports.
Judge orders public hearing on Canadian-backed dam
Belize’s Supreme Court has recommended public hearings on a controversial plan by Newfoundland-based power company, Fortis, Inc., to build a 50-metre high dam in the rainforest of this tiny Central American country.
Lesotho in bid to stamp-out corruption
(December 19, 2002) The Lesotho government has set-up an anti-corruption department to root-out corruption in that country.
Ecology in the Three Gorges: problems and uncertainties
(December 19, 2002) ‘Many Chinese scientists agree that building the Three Gorges dam will accelerate environmental degradation in the reservoir area and in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze,’ China’s News Weekly magazine reports.
Senate panel wants dam plans scrapped
(December 19, 2002) Human rights abuses ‘likely to increase.’
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